THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRT-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 18 October 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRT-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1880.

Saturday evening last being an unusually fine night, large numbers of visitors were attracted to town, and for several hours Broadway presented something of the busy appearance of yore. There was however, an absence of that volatility which marked the crowds of the earlier days, and although ' bright lamps shone o'e fair women * and bar men, there wns no sound of revelry by night. Matrimony, old age, and bad times have much to answer for in this respect. Reefton is fast losing the characteristics of a mining town, nnd putting on the sober garb of respectable old«fopyism. There are few towns on the West Coast where there is less Saturday night boozing done than in Reefton. This is gcod. We learn f«om the agents that the steamer Hero will leave Greymouth for Newcastle and Melbourne on Friday next. We notice that the Grey Argus gives Saturday as the saiiipg date. The many friends of Mr William Hugh Jones in Reefton and the Grey Valley will learn with pleasure that he has passed with honor his final examination for admission as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and now only awaits his formal call to the bar io order to be entered upon the roll of the profession. Mr Jones has qualified himself well within the time of bis articleship, thus attesting to the amount of intelligence and application he has brought to bear upon his studies. We heartily congratulate Mr Jones upon the honorable profession he has won, and feel thoroughly assured that the same industry that has raised him to the position will procure for him rapid advancement in his professional career. Mr Jones will start practice in Reefton. >'• Thj share market appears to have taken a trip to the Melbourne Kxliibiiion — or joined the Mormons, it is not clearly known which. It certainly has no existence in Reefton at the present time. We do not attempt to account for these things ; like tlie fly in the amber, tfiflro it is, and that is all that can be said. Nest week we probably shall have to record quite the other extreme. Mr Mackay, Iste Warden and Magis* tra'.e at Greymouth, has commenced business there as commission and mining agent. We lenrn that it is the intention of the Venus Company to resume operations forthwith. The first work will be the extension of the present lowest level into the new ground just applied for. which is in the northern portion of the company's leasehold. It is also the intention of the company, as soon as arrangements are completed, to start another level at a greater depth, whijeb will give 200 ft of backs, and the lode is expected to be met with on this level at a distance of 2£oft or 300rt. " Our telegrams ibis morning announce the death of Mr Mansford, District : Judge and Magistrate, Wellington. Tenders are invited by the Public Works department, for construction of the Kumara Sludge Channel. Particu. lars will be found in our advertising columns. The Golden Fleece Company had their v ual weekly rleaning up on Saturday last ; the returns being 374 z 19iwt of amalgam, from the top plates only. This is the result of five days two hour's crushing, an interruption of twenty-two hours having been occasioned early in the

week by the bursting of tho blowpipe of the battery enigne. In giving the pre» virus week's returns from this. battery a slight error crept in. The correct figures are as follow :— For eleven days' crush* ing, 3940z of amalgam, from the top plates, and this added to 2760z amalgam taken off the Saturday previous, gave 2340z 12dwt of retorted gold for the eleven days. The battery has resumed. In the rise going up from No 4 level ihree feet of stone has been struck ; the rise is now up 18ft, but the stone was met with at a distance of 12i't and has since carried as stated. The following is the conducting portion of Mr J. Dee's letter, the first part of which was published in our last issue : — '' Tke state of the law in this country is not to be coin- j mended. There is no inducement for opening up the country. To give you an idea of how they would promote the paining industry and develop the mineral resources of the country, the law is : Any party of cix o|l more men holding their proper area are com* pelled to register as a company in a prescribed form, and attach a penny stamp to the deed for each scrip ; also a penny for each scrip or share at every transfer, and ninepence in the £on all dividends. This regulation applies to all registered companies in the colony. There is about 300 miles of railway in the country, and about the satre length of macadamised road. The merchants and other business people, both in Eobart Town and Launceston ore very wealthy in money and property, but their daily business appears to me to be awfully dull in comparison with other places ; but this must have been a queer old place some thirty years ajo, and it would surprise you to see how much the people have changed in their habits since the late rushes set in. Tom Rowlandeon is still here, and is looking after mining interests and speculating, and likely to do well this summer. "We will be leading for Melbournejabout the latter end of October, and I will be in New Zealand: in: December. Tom Curry is still at Lisle ; but all tho other West Coasters are a way with the except tion of Bill Bourke, who, I am sorry to say, is suffering from inflammation of the lungs, but likely to repover soon. The two Wards are here, both married, and in turn have done well, lam glad to learn by the Inan<Jahtta Timrs, that there is a good prospect in stove for Eeefton. With kind regards, I remain, &c, Jambs Dbe." The August number of the Victorian Review opens with a letter from the Duke of Manchester to the editor in reference to "Deadlocks in the two Chambers." The Duke doubts whether a constitution which provides for two elective chambers can be judged by the analogy of the British Constitution. The peers, as members of the House of Lords, were at one time the spokesmen of the nation. But, being almost annihilated by the wars of tho Hoses, the House of Lords ceased to be the independent assembly of magnates which it had at one time been, and was thereafter largely composed of men who were merely instruments in the hands of the sovereign in those acts from which the people sought redress. Hence the Common?, after the time of the Tudors, resisted the attempts of the Crown and of the peers, who were nominees of the Crown, to interfere in matters of taxation or supply. Nevertheless, the Duke is of opinion that where there are two elective Houses they should have equal powers with regard to money, and the best preventive for deadlocks he considere to be " calmness and moderation.'' A Wanganui " ham " sold after a tea meeting the other night was found to be a dummy made out of totara, neatly greased and smoked. The party who sold that ham saved his bacon.— Pa tea Mail. Cole's circus will arrive in New Zealand by the next inward mail steamer from San Francisco. It has amongst other attractions, four elephants, six camels and forty horses. Chinamen are stealing trout from the Shag River, Otago, and two of them have been fined £25 each. Sheading time is now approaching, but the good old diiys have departed. In Wellington we find that 17s per 100 has ro be taken wliero a fow years ago, 25s was looked upon as small. The Melbourne Telegraph says that the present Berry Ministry is unique. It does not contain even one Scotchman or Irishman, mush less a Catholic. The Rocky Mountain State of Colorado has made such rapid progress in production of precious metah that it promises to rival the Golden State of the Pacific. la 1870 the population of California was 560,247 ; in 1880, according to the census just completed, it was 8G 4,836. Ii is once generally known that during last pension there was a strong middle party in the House composed mainly of members who were elected as opponents of Sir G-eorge Grey's policy. Messrs Ormond, Richardson, Wood, Wakefield, Snunders, and G-is-borne were supposed to be of the party, and they greatly hampered the Hall Ministry by their exactions. When some of Sir George Grey's party were sounded on the question of coalescing with the middle party, they bluntly said they would prefer to go over to the Hall Party : — Chronicle. Atlas, in the World, coinmunicatos the following :— " I am able to confirm the statement which was guardedly made in these columns a fortnight ago. A marriage has been arranged bpfcween the Baroness BurdettCoutts and Mr Aahmead Bartlett, who has acted as her secretary and almoner for some lime past,. On the same day on which this hint appeared in the World, the Standard published a statement promptly denied, the fact being that the gentleman in question is not the M.P. for Eye, but his brother. Ey becoming the wife of Mr Bartlett. the Baroness Burdetts^outts loses a very large portion of her income, to the extent, it is said, of over £100,000 a year. This la in accordance with the will of Harriet Mellon, who married first Mr Coutts the banker, and fefcerwui'ds tho lute Duke of St. Albans. He - - - ■ .f

will, bequeathing her yagfc property to Miss Angela Buidett Ooutts, provides tbat ia the eTeut of the legatees marriage to any a^ en or to any naturalised enhject, her interest in Coutt's Bank and other properties shall cease and determine. Mr Bartlett is an American born, who was paturalised us a Biitish Bubject some short time since. It is asserted that remonßtrances from tbe Baroness Bur-dett-Coutts' best friends, and, as I am assured, from the highest quarters, have failed to have any effect, and tbat the marriage will shortly take place. According to the Peerage the age of the baroness is 66. Mr Bartlett has not completed his 29th year,